I’m back from my travels to California. After 2.5 years of not seeing my parents and family, lockdowns, vaccinations, and many covid tests, I finally got to catch up and be present with them. I have to say, considering that almost everyone we know has had covid, we have yet to catch it and hope it will stay that way. But travel has it’s own sort of fatigue and exhaustion that has me wanting to be wrapped up in a blanket and sleeping in bed all day. I was not prepared for the amount of energy I was going to spend after years of isolation and the need for a long recovery. Alas, now that I’m back home, I can catch up on the things I have neglected while I was being present, energetic, and social in California, like updating this blog.
If you’ve been following along on Instagram, I’ve had a couple of exciting works come to fruition like Cyclista Zines’ sixth issue “Outsider”, a piece in the Get Rad’s second issue, Creating Space Through Zine Making, a feature piece in Sierra Mag on bike zines, Spoken Word: Inside the Rogue, Homegrown World of Bike Zines and an interview with the Wheel Suckers Podcast on Crumb Culture & Bike Medicine. While it certainly has been a productive and busy year, I have been slowing down to live life more presently and less online and I am loving it!
While I was in Berkeley I saw all my friends, rode my new Brooklyn Bicycle Co Franklin around, and reconnected with some pals at the Cal Bike Summit and East Bay Bike Party and it was so good to connect with folks who are truly passionate about bikequity and mobility justice. To be reemerged in the spaces that ignited my passion for bike advocacy reminded me that there really isn’t a bike culture quite like the Bay Area’s.
Now that I’m home on the East Coast, I look forward to riding around the lush green rural country roads, connecting to the land, reading, resting, and sharing some of my thoughts here.